Archive for May 2023

Putin might be in Africa this week. Maybe or maybe not. He should have his hands full with Ukraine’s promised counter offensive due any day now, that’s if he’s a hands-on sort of fellow. He has been invited to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, SA) summit this weekend in Cape Town and has been…

The political and economic health of a country can be measured by its exchange rate against hard currencies, experts say. Zimbabwe is a classic example. But first though, see how the formula works. The South African rand took a tumble after the Americans accused its armaments industry of providing weapons to Russia. The South Africans…

Africa Day is celebrated on May 25 every year to mark the formation of the  Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. From the outset it was hardly African because the lighter skinned Arab world north of the Sub-Sahara nations considered themselves scarcely African. And it was never really united either. The same applies to…

I  told you so. Camilla began romancing Charles right here in Zimbabwe around our independence in 1980. Here is corroborating evidence from our very own Chronicle of Bulawayo. Even if newspapers aren’t always to be believed, this time it was right on the money. Eye-witnesses among local glitterati, mostly foreign expats and Brits in for…

  Former British colonies and protectorates had an eye on all the jewels at the coronation of King Charles III.  Diamonds, gold, silver and many precious artifacts were plundered in colonial times and the rightful owners want them back.   A truly gruesome episode in this plunder was of the gold tooth of the Congolese pan-Africanist hero Patrice…

It’s hard to shelter from the deluge of news from Sudan and Ukraine. So PTSD brings all this back, particularly in the dark dreams of night … Death, danger and destruction have a prominent place in history, especially in Africa. We accept it as a given until we have to bring out our own dead.…